OpenAI Releases New Reasoning Models for Coding and Visual Tasks

OpenAI is rolling out a pair of new artificial intelligence models that mimic the process of human reasoning to field more complicated coding questions and visual tasks, the latest in a flurry of releases from the company to fend off renewed competition in the US and China.

The first model, called o3, spends more time computing an answer before responding to user prompts, with the goal of solving more complex multistep problems related to science, math and coding, the company said Wednesday. OpenAI is also releasing a model called o4-mini that performs well in similar categories but is meant to be more compact and nimble. Both are now available to OpenAI’s paid ...